So, I happened across this headline (after reading THIS authoritarian nightmare story):

Belgium bans performance labeled ‘anti-Semitic hatefest’

A lot of this story seems to be the sort of anti-sensical madness that could only come from the region that gave the world “Metal Hurlant…” you know, flashy gibberish that simply makes no sense whatsoever.

Let me see if I got this right… Dieudonne M’bala M’bala is, apparently a French guy with a French mother and Cameroonian father, and who became a stand up comic. OK so far. Made a name for himself doing gags with a Jewish comic.  Sure. Ran against the “National Front” party (which he saw as racist) in elections of ’97 and ’01. Fine. He begins littering his comedy routines with anti-Jewish stuff.  Umm. Then he becomes a friend and political ally of Jean Marie Le Pen, head of the National Front party. Errr…  And he hangs around with Holocaust deniers and demonstrates with Islamists. And he apparently invented a gesture that is considered explicitly anti-Semitic, and which appears to be a modifed “Nazi salute”. Buh? And now he’s associated with a group of Belgian nationalists.

This is him:

So… if you’re in America or western Europe and you’re getting your knickers in a knot over Ukrainian neo-Nazis, here’s something new to get in a cold sweat over. Not only neo-Nazis, but weird-ass alternate reality neo-Nazis. Who are apparently quite popular.

If I didn’t know better, I’d think that this was some sort of reeeeaaaaaalllllly long-form gag. But everythign seems to indicate that the anti-immigrant racists of France have fallen in love with the son of an African, who has taken up their cause.

Buh.

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